| Author |
Date
and source
|
Quotes |
|
|
|
| US
Secretary of State, Colin Powell |
26
July 2001
Agence France Press
|
" In Doha,
we can launch a new round of trade negotiations that will help all
countries, especially developing countries, to expand their
economies…A dynamic, growing global economy is the ultimate
poverty reduction strategy[…] Developing countries can be among
the big winners if there is a market-opening round."
|
| John
Kay |
25 July 2001
Finantial Times
|
" We
should also honestly debate the problems and opportunities of
economic development. the opponents of globalisation cannot be
defeated by steel fences or lectures on the theme that you cannot
buck the market." |
| Professor
of Economics at University of Rochester, Steven E. Landsburg Wall |
24 July
2001
Street Journal
|
" People
in the third world are poor; they're about as poor as Americans
were in the mid 19th century. Being poor means making hard
choices, such as whether to work more or to eat less. Neither
alternative is terribly palatable, but it requires more than a bit
of hubris to suggest that middle-class American and European
demonstrators can choose between them more wisely than the African
and Asian families who have to live with the consequences." |
| Joint
Statement from the foreign ministers of all ASEAN members |
24
July 2001
Kyodo
News International
|
" We
reaffirmed our conviction that cooperation in a rule-based
multilateral trading system plays a vital role in alleviating
poverty of ASEAN" |
| G8
Final Statement |
22
July 2001
Dow Jones International News Service
|
" We
are determined to make globalization work for all our citizens and
especially the world's poor. Drawing the poorest countries into
the global economy is the surest way to address their fundamental
aspirations. We concentrated our discussions on a strategy to
achieve this […]
The situation in many developing countries - especially in Africa
- calls for decisive global action. The most effective poverty
reduction strategy is to maintain a strong, dynamic, open and
growing global economy." |
| WTO
Director for Technical Cooperation, Chiedu Osakwe |
22
July 2001
Agence France Press
|
"The
WTO is committed to assist LDCs to grow economically […] admit
there are problems to be tackled before we meet this challenge,
but the LDCs should be serious[…] You have to provide collective
leadership, and a policy on rule of law, transparency are very
important in the poverty alleviation." |
| Chief
delegate from Bangladesh at the Zanzibar meeting, S. Rahama. |
22 July
2001
Dow
Jones International News Service
|
" We
are confronting a time were 600 million people, one tenth of the
population of this globe, are finding it increasingly difficult in
their endeavour to lead a decent life. Our 49 (LDC) countries are
generally facing marginalization, (our) share is declining in the
global market, the economies in the countries are becoming
impoverished by each passing day." |
| Director
of the Center for International Development Harvard University,
Jeffrey Sachs |
19
July 2001
The Economic Times online.
|
" This
process of global production helps rich countries in terms of
lower-cost products and poor countries by creating jobs,
experience with advanced technologies, and investment. Eventually,
a poor country can "graduate" from being a mere supplier
of components to becoming an innovator. Korea, Taiwan, Israel and
Ireland began their rapid industrialisation one generation ago by
producing standard products for multinational firms. Now they are
high-tech economies in their own right." |
| Master
of Trinity College and Nobel Prize Laureate, Amartya Sen |
19
July 2001
The Guardian |
" Far
more significant are the massive existing levels of inequality and
poverty. Even if the patrons of the contemporary economic order
were right in claiming that the poor in general have moved a litle
ahead- and that is, in fact, by no means uniformly so - the
compelling need to pay immediate and overwhelming attention to
appalling poverty and staggering global inequalities will would
not disappear." |
| Master
of Trinity College and Nobel Prize Laureate, Amartya Sen |
14 July
2001
International
Herald Tribune |
" Globalization
is not new nor it is just Westernization : over thousands of
years, globalization has progressed through travel, trade,
migration, spread of cultural influences and dissemination of
knowledge and understanding (including science and technology)." |
| WTO
Director-General, Mike Moore |
14 July 2001
Reuters |
" When
they demand the abolition of the WTO in order to en globalisation,
it is like demanding the abolition of hospitals to defeat
illness." |
| World
Bank Chief Economist, Nicholas Stern |
12 July 2001
Dow
Jones International News Service
|
" An
increase in international trade and investment through
multilateral trade reform is not an end in itself, but a
potentially powerful means of reducing poverty worldwide." |
| Philippe
Legrain |
12
July 2001
The Economist |
" While
GDP per person fell by 1% a year in the 1990'sin non globalisation
counbtries, it rose by 5% a year in globalising ones. the WTO is a
friend of the Poor. Its rules protect the weak in a world of
unequal power….WTO rules apply to everyone-even the United
States. Costa Rica challenged US restrictions on its underwear
exports at the WTO and won." |
| Pope
John Paul II |
12
July 2001
Figaro
|
"Pope
John Paul II […] preaches for a globalisation that "should not
be a new form of colonialism."" |
| World
Bank chief Economist, Nicholas Stern |
12 July 2001
Dow
Jones Newswire, |
" An
increase in international trade and investment through
multilateral trade reform is not an end in itself, but a
potentially powerful means of reducing poverty worldwide." |
| Director
General of the WTO, Mike Moore |
6
July 2001
Reuters |
"If
we cut by a third remaining barriers to trade in agriculture,
manufacture and services, this would boost the world economy of
$613 billion[…]equivalent to adding an economy the size of Canada
to the World Economy" |
| Director
General of the WTO, Mike Moore |
6
July 2001
Reuters |
" Poor
countries need to grow their way out of poverty." |
| Malaysian
Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz |
6
July 2001
Reuters |
" Quite
a number of them (local businesses) have been competing in the
Malaysian market without any tariff protection already[...]the fact
that they are successful in the domestic market even now means
that we are quite well prepared for AFTA. But there must be a
change in mindsets not to look at purely the local market[...] don't
look at protecting ourselves in our little market of 22 million,
look at this half a billion market." |
| Former
Australian Ambassador to the GATT, Alan Oxley |
29 June 2001
Australian
Financial Review
|
"
There is clear evidence that when countries follow the open market
model upon which WTO rules are based, they achieve higher growth
and rising standards of living. this is the rason esat Asia grew
faster than any other region in the developing world over the past
half century; the reason China achieved stunning growth after
dismantling the stifling effect of communist economics; the reason
that those in absolute poverty in Indonesia fell from 75 per cent
of the population in 1975 to 25 per cent in 1995[…] Those bellow
the poverty line in India, for example, fell from 57 per cent of
the population in 1973 to 35 per cent in 1998." |
| Former
Australian Ambassador to the GATT, Alan Oxley |
29 June
2001
Australian
Financial Review |
" The
WTO system offers the only practicable system to improve the
growth prospects of developing countries. Vast a mounts of aid and
debt forgiveness will not solve the recurring problems in the
low-growth development economies. Getting the economy right is the
only solution." |
| Secretary
of State for International Development of the United Kingdom,
Claire Short |
December
2000
Paper: "Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalization
Work for the Poor" |
"
There are substantial inequities in the existing international
trading system […] Despite progress over the last 50 years,
developed countries maintain significant tariff and non-tariff
barriers against the exports of developing countries […which…]
are most damaging in areas of key importance[…], such as
agriculture, textile and clothing, while the use and threat of
'trade defence' instruments (e.g. anti-dumping) creates further
obstacles." |
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